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The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: herrarte on Monday 04 July 2011, 18:33

Title: Russian Piano Music
Post by: herrarte on Monday 04 July 2011, 18:33
fyrexia,

I have just located my Piano Lps and I will list what I have

1     Revutsky: Sonechko, folksong-arrangements for voice and piano (1925),
       Kosenko: 24 Compositions for Children (24 детских произведения) (1936).

2     TOMAS KORGANOV
       24 Piano pieces

3      Balasanyan,

        Armenian Rhapsody
        Rhapsody on Tagore's Songs

4      Lyatroshinsky

       Sonata-ballada Op.44/2
       Preludes, Op.44 2, 3 and 4
       Reflections piano suite

5     Alexandrov

       Ballada, Op.75/4
       Melody, Op. 75/2
       2 Romantic Episodes, op.88
       Albumblatt , op.95
       Aria, Op.60/1
       Apparitions, Op.21
       Petite Suite, Op.78
       Elegy, Op.89/1

6     Balanchivadze
      12 piano Pieces
                             (I did look up the track names but don't know russian, so I don't knoe if it's a Suite but can upload
                             .jpeg for someone to translate).

7     Kosenko:

       4 Mazurkas, Op.3 and 9
       2 Etudes, Op.8
       Etude, Op.8 "May-Day"
       2 Gavottes
       2 poem-Legends Op.12.

These are the ones that I have just located, I also have Glinka by Kamyshov and some Blagoy.

Well, if anything jumps at you let me know and I will rip/convert and upload.

Cheers,





Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: fyrexia on Monday 04 July 2011, 18:38
Herrarte,

Those works mentioned are mouth-watering !
I do have the Lyatoshynsky works as well as the Kosenkos. As well i have the lp with the 11 etudes in the old form. Perhaps i can post by interest of any member here.
The Korganov seems interesting too ! Another one of those contemporaries of Lysenko.
Please do upload the Alexandrov works mentioned. Its very interesting.
I can upload a prelude by alexandrov, which i do not have any idea on the op number. And its a prelude written in name of Samuel Feinberg.

All best,

Tony
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: eschiss1 on Monday 04 July 2011, 20:37
this is Alexandrov whose output includes 2 symphonies and at least 10 piano sonatas, not the other Alexandrov who wrote a national anthem, yes? (And if anyone has a recording of those symphonies and/or piano sonatas, I'd like to hear them too :) - I've skimmed the scores of one of the symphonies and some of the sonatas...)
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: fyrexia on Monday 04 July 2011, 21:08
Yes, the alexandrov here we talk is Anatoly Alexandrov. Author of at least 14 piano sonatas, 2 symphonies and a piano concerto, as well as several music for film.
I shall post the 1st symphony around this week.

Tony
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: fyrexia on Monday 04 July 2011, 21:29
Herrarte,

Can you mention the op.number if possible or available in the album of the works by Lysenko?

Tony
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: fyrexia on Tuesday 05 July 2011, 03:01
The alexandrov and peiko sounds intriguing. I do have a recording of the Peiko piano sonata no.2, if anyone would be interested. Toccata classics has peiko complete piano works on their pipeline !
I just uploaded the Alexandrov Symphony No.1 in the Russian and Soviet Thread.

All best,

Tony
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 05 July 2011, 12:58
wonder how many different efforts there have been to license the Soviet Radio archives for western CD use - at least 3 and perhaps several more yet in the last 20 years, I think, though some may have been more above-board than others, I gather.  Erm. Anyways...
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: herrarte on Friday 08 July 2011, 16:28
Fyrexia,

Looking a t the Alexandrov Lp I mentioned before that contains the Aquarelle, Op.66/2...
It also has the Sonata No4, and No.8,  the performer is Victor Bunin.
I am also looking at the Lysenko LP and nowhere there's a mention of the tracks' Opus numbers. I will scan it and send a .jpeg so you can see.
I also located  an 10" lp that contains the N. Rakov Sonatina No.4 in C minor played by Dmitri Blagoy.

I will upload the remaining Alexandrov tomorrow and to answer your question I DON"T have the Suite of Diary Pages.

Cheers,

Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: fyrexia on Sunday 10 July 2011, 06:16
Thanks herrarrte. I would be very very interesting to hear and also compare the performance of the 4th sonata by bunin and hamish milne on hyperion.
Although from the early sonatas my favorite remains no.3. And no2 and 4 is on second place !
Please let me hear this wonderful sonatas. Also the eight sonata. I play it myself during free times. The third movement resembles very very much to the 3rd movement of the piano concerto op.102.
I can upload some recordings of rakov`s sonatina for piano and violin. I hope members would be interested !
I am deeply interested in hearing several of rakov sonatinas. As i have the scores i must enjoy them with it along. Although a friend did send me a recording of a sonatina, but it was totally not identical to the score. So i am still wondering if this scores are not actually the rakov sonatinas. But i must hear it to know.

Would you happen to have the lp of bunin play a particular sonata by alexandrov that comes with 12 preludes by Sergei Ryazorenov (Ryazoryonov)?
Victor Bunin has definitely recorded some of the music i most want to hear, and composers and admire/enjoy very much.

All best,

Tony
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: MikeW on Monday 06 August 2012, 09:09
Quote from: herrarte on Monday 04 July 2011, 18:33
7     Kosenko:

       4 Mazurkas, Op.3 and 9
       2 Etudes, Op.8
       Etude, Op.8 "May-Day"
       2 Gavottes
       2 poem-Legends Op.12.

I would love to hear these
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: herrarte on Monday 06 August 2012, 14:17
I sent them to fyrexia to upload, I don't know if he uploaded them, you can look and if he didn't I will.
Here's the link to some of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CuasTTRjUQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CuasTTRjUQ).

Cheers,

herrarte 
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: MikeW on Monday 06 August 2012, 17:11
Quote from: herrarte on Monday 06 August 2012, 14:17
I sent them to fyrexia to upload, I don't know if he uploaded them, you can look and if he didn't I will.
Here's the link to some of them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CuasTTRjUQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CuasTTRjUQ).

Found them all, excellent! and thank you. I hope someone records the complete Op.8 etudes - Juliana Osinchuk has done 5/11.
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: kyjo on Tuesday 07 August 2012, 03:32
Thank you so much, fyrexia! Your YouTube channel is simply a treasure trove of music, and I admire that you go out of your way to find scores. I have heard much wonderful, rare music on your channel and I still have so much to discover. Keep up the excellent work :)!
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 07 August 2012, 06:12
I have access to scores of some of Alexandrov's works, including a (Soviet) partial collected edition that contains at least the 1st symphony and so I should be able sometime to get the movement titles for the first symphony op92 in C (or if they're in Cyrillic, photocopy/scan them so that someone here can translate them), likewise for some other works if they are also in that edition (assuming Cornell still has it - haven't looked at it in years though if they haven't moved things around too much then I know where it is.) Not there often, but will go there again before too too long :)
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: JimL on Tuesday 07 August 2012, 07:48
Well, if you're going to bring up a symphony here, can anybody get me the tempo indication for the Scherzo of Alexander Tanyev's 2nd Symphony?  I believe it's the one in B-flat minor.
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: chill319 on Thursday 09 August 2012, 04:12
Like herrarte, I've been impressed by the piano pieces of Lyatoshinsky ever since I first played through them.  Sonata 1, op. 13, the Reflections suite, op. 16, and the Sonata Ballade, op. 18 (not 44), are bold works cast in a post-Scriabin expressionist style that is somewhat off-topic on this board.  The preludes opp. 38, 38-bis, and 44 (1940s), and the etudes (1960s) essay a modal style closer to the official socialist aesthetic of the period. Several of these short works impress me as worthy successors to the preludes of Rachmaninov, and I think they would appeal to many.
Title: Re: Russian Piano Music
Post by: kyjo on Thursday 09 August 2012, 04:39
Post-Scriabin expressionist style off-topic in this board :o? Gee, I hope not! Scriabin is one of my faves (You'd have to have a metal head to not be able to get the stirring march tune of his second symphony's finale out of your head ;D!); I don't think he is off-limits for this forum (Stockhausen is a different story ;)...) Anyway, more power to you, chill319, for being able to play Lyatoshinsky's music. I'd probably be growing a beard (an old man's one, that is) by the time I got to the second measure if I attempted anything even close to being as difficult as Scriabin >:(!